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Category Archives: Education
A Third Way for Campus Speech?
Fenster writes: Shulamit Reinharz, the director of an academic center at Brandeis, has an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling for a third way on campus speech. Alluding to the tension currently present between free speech and those who would … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Uncategorized
Tagged Academic Freedom, Boston Globe, Brandeis, Campus Free Speech, Shulamit Reinharz
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“Barbarian Empires of the Steppes”
Paleo Retiree writes: Along with Blowhard, Esq. and Fabrizio del Wrongo, I’m a big fan of Kenneth Harl, a Tulane professor who has done numerous lecture series about early and medieval history for The Great Courses. He’s smart, he’s fast, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, History
Tagged Attila the Hun, education, genghis khan, history, kenneth harl
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The UR Syllabus of Shitlordery
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Browsing my Facebook feed the past few days, I’ve been astonished at the amount of hysterical, sloppy thinking I’ve seen from many of my otherwise smart friends. How you can see a (likely gay) Muslim man shoot up … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Philosophy and Religion, Politics and Economics, Sex
Tagged Bukka White, Charles Bukowski, Charles Ferguson, Charles Portis, Charles Willeford, donald westlake, Edward Abbey, Elmore Leonard, Epictetus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gary Taubes, George MacDonald Fraser, Gore Vidal, Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending, Howlin' Wolf, John Colapinto, John Lee Hooker, John T. Flynn, Joseph McCarthy, Kevin MacDonald, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lonnie Johnson, Mance Lipscomb, Marcus Aurelius, Mencius Moldbug, Michael Oakeshott, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Nassim Taleb, Nicholas Wade, Oswald Spengler, Otis Rush, Raymond Chandler, Red Pill, seneca, shitlordery, Skip James, Son House, Stanley Rothman, Steven Pinker, T-Bone Walker, Thomas Sowell
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A Generation on a Ledge
Fenster writes: I wrote here about how the pro-faculty American Association of University Professors issued a report critical of the misuses of Title IX. And how Fester found that take to be refreshing and welcome. But also that it was … Continue reading
Free Harvard!
Fenster writes: I admire Ron Unz a lot, read his blog-paper daily and support his position on bilingual education. Alas I cannot warm all that much to his push to make Harvard tuition free. He is running a slate committed … Continue reading
Three Links
Fenster writes: Several examples of talking about the weather but really talking about something else, too. 1 On the academic freedom front, a glimmer of reason and from a somewhat unexpected source. The American Association of University Professors … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics and Economics
Tagged AAUP, Donald Trump, Eli Lake, Karl Rove, Title IX
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Wither Colleges?
Fenster writes: Blowhard Esq. advocates here that students consider college on a do it yourself basis. That idea has a lot of appeal. Here is a book on DIY University. And the recent film on higher education, The Ivory Tower, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Uncategorized
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